Katherine Connelly gives a brief history of the Paris Commune, its impact on Karl Marx and the lessons we can take from Marx’s pamphlet Civil War in France at Counterfire’s Marxism in a Day event
Join Revolution! May Day weekender in London
The world is changing fast. From tariffs and trade wars to the continuing genocide in Gaza to Starmer’s austerity 2.0.
Revolution! on Saturday 3 – Sunday 4 May brings together leading activists and authors to discuss the key questions of the moment and chart a strategy for the left.
Katherine Connelly
Kate Connelly is a writer and historian. She led school student strikes in the British anti-war movement in 2003, co-ordinated the Emily Wilding Davison Memorial Campaign in 2013 and is a leading member of Counterfire. She wrote the acclaimed biography, 'Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire' and recently edited and introduced 'A Suffragette in America: Reflections on Prisoners, Pickets and Political Change'.
History
05 Jul 2010
A Marxist History of the World part 5: The Rise of the Specialists
History
22 Jun 2010
A Marxist History of the World Part 4: The origins of War and Religion
History
14 Jun 2010
A Marxist History of the World Part 3: The Neolithic Revolution
History
04 Jun 2010
A Marxist History of the World | Part 2: The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution
History
03 Jun 2010